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Would not have hurt my feelings, I consider myself temp until the hospital or floor can get fully staffed with in house nurses. I kind of look at all experiences as part of the fun and learning of travel nursing, most will be extremely good and a few...

It seems this message board is very diverse in its members experiences, for me I am half way thru my first assignment in Charleston South Carolina. It seems there are a lot of newbies as well as seasoned travelers and hopefully will share their exper...

I know this will sound like a broken record but here it goes anyways. Don't worry. I am on my first assignment and have found out that all the worry was not needed. I love the hospital I am in, I love the staff, I love the gals at my agency. I even j...

Hi all, I am currently on my first travel assignment in Charleston South Carolina and loving every minute of it. I hope to extend my contract for another 3 months and waiting for them to ask. When I tire of here I would like to do Alaska next. Has an...

I am a travel nurse, first assignment, a situation arose last night and I want your comments. hx: the floor I work on, is a 6 bed med/surg unit recently opened and 75 % staffed with travel nurses, but still understaffed via hospital standards. situa...

I am on my first assignment and since the state of WV is not a compact state and that is where my original license is from I will need to get a new license for every state I work in. My question is, What do you do with them after the assignment is ov...

:up:Hi, I am currently at MUSC for my first travel assignment, It took about a week for a interview but it is a med/surg unit. This hospital is great to work as a traveler in. They use a lot of travelers and we are treated very well. The orientation ...

I dont know if that is to much because I do not know your financial needs. But I will give you my situation and you may be able to compare. I started in a 4yr BSN program when I was 43, I made 24,000 a yr prior to school. I had to quit work and take ...

The hospital were I work will not give out or will not permit nurses to give out any information over the phone unless the paitent put that said person on a give information to list that is placed in the chart. We generally give each person a code na...

reminds me of a few nights ago, I was to administer soap suds enema till clear to a pt. The first one did not produce anything but brown liquid return, I was giving the second and and the charge nurse for some unknown reason came into the room, looke...

This is not uncommon, the lpn may have not been at the hospital when the Dr. spoke with the pt. You handled this correctly, the only thing different I may have done was to call the education dept and have them send up a pamplet on coumadin and valve ...

since I did not go back to college until I was 40, I did a year of remedial classes. I then applied to nursing school the following January. I received a letter of rejection in April but was told to send a card in to be put on a waiting list. I sent ...

We had a code blue in progress and the pt in the next bed over ask us to move the code pt to another room because he could not get to sleep. Later he called billing and told them he should have one night deducted from his bill for the inconvienence. ...

The surgincal dept at my hospital has already done away with IV phenergan and switched to zofran. Family practice and internal medicine are a little slower at changing. Zofran seems to achieve the same results without the sedative effect and the burn...

I may be wrong but I thought the federal gov. banned mandatory overtime for nurses. I know that it is not a practice in my hospital or any other hospital in my area. Of course when the hospital calls and ask me to pull an extra shift I usually do bec...

The class that covered HH when I was in the BSN program was called community nursing. We did 8 weeks of home health and 8 weeks of community. I did an assisted living for community and hospice for home health. I enjoyed this experience because it let...

Nursing school is the time for learning, learning all the ins in outs so to speak. Speak with your instructor and ask to be told when this situation arises so you can observe the process. If it becomes to much, walk away and try it another time. All ...

no, no, no...... The only worker other than a lpn or rn able to pass medication in a long term facility (depends on state) that I know of is a AMAP (assistive medication administation personel). They attend classes and take a test in order to be cert...

I too have only been in one code blue situation, I took the documentation part of it also. I watched all the code blue team doing what they were best at doing and wondering how they learned it. I think I could document, push the drugs, do the chest c...

I do not think students are ever in the way. A helping hand is always good to have. Nurses need to always remember their own clinical experiences first. Who was the best nurse you worked with and how did you feel when you were put with a rude nurse. ...

When I first started I developed several different sheets to keep me on track, since each pt is different and needs different care, I went back to the basic hand written form. I take a blank sheet of paper and draw three colum across and six down, in...

On a positive note, my hospital usually post a seperate sheet from the schedule that list hours available for overtime that any nurse can sign up for. The only problem with signing is that if census is down you are the first called off since its over...

My hospital uses admission nurses from 7am to 8pm, it is great, the floor nurse only has to reassess for documentation and fill out the unit paperwork such as plans of care, med sheets, ect. After 8pm we are on our own to do total admisions.

I would get rid of costomer satisfaction as the number one goal and go back to the thought of doing things that need to be done for the good of the paitent. To much concern about pt complaints to survays ect. hinders a nurse from giving proper care t...

I had my first death a about 5 months age.. all I can say is Time, Time, and more Time... At first I thought about it all the time, What could I have done different. I still think of it once in awhile but as time goes by, I am ok about it because I k...